Police have been banned from using a powerful, non-lethal weapon to control protests in an extraordinary federal court decision. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall ruled on Thursday the Los Angeles Police ...

Incident reports obtained by CBC News shed new light on the circumstances where police use electric weapons, including ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LAPD officers arrive to push back demonstrators advocating for immigrant rights outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building on ...

Several fatalities stemming from supposedly ‘less-lethal’ police weapons are now the subject of coronial inquests, adding to pressure for tougher constraints on their use.

Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies have reported using thousands of crowd control munitions against protesters in L.A. since June 2025, when federal immigration sweeps began escalating ...

Connecticut State Police have moved to a new type of Taser they say could help reduce the need for lethal force, which comes at a time when law enforcement has come under increased scrutiny to resolve ...

Nour Haydar speaks with Ariel Bogle and Nino Bucci about how controversial less-lethal weapons are being used against demonstrators ...

UN experts on Wednesday expressed their disapproval of the acquisition and use by the National Police of the Irish Republic (Gardaí) of so-called “less-lethal” weapons such as “double-strength pepper ...

Santa Fe police officers are using physical force with increasing frequency when responding to calls for service. The number of use-of-force incidents almost tripled between 2020 and 2024, a newly ...

Kingpin Shahbaz Ansari was earlier arrested in a case connected with the 2002 killing of Sidhu Moosewala, according to DCP, ...